Direction
Anton Juan, Jr.
Dramaturgy
Judy Ick
Assistant Direction
Pat Valera and Katte Sabate
Video Design
Winter David
Set Design
Ohm David
Sound Design
Jethro Joaquin
Lights Design
Meliton Roxas
Costume Design
Lhenvil Paneda
Cast
Teroy Guzman, Judy Ick, Ricky Abad, Chiqui Burgos, Gigi Escalante, Ron Capinding, Romnick Sarmienta, Jamie Wilson, Earl Ignacio, Ian Lomongo, William Manzano
Reviews
Screen: Macbeth Merges Theatre and Film
Broadway World
Through historical allusions and visual references, the play embodies both Shakespeare’s 17th-century text and today’s social and political realities.
Murder, Treason in the Hands of Anton the Terrible
Babeth Lolarga
In an age of Senate investigations where flagrant lies are passed off as truths, when those in exalted positions assume they are not accountable to the people, when feudal politics in the South leads to the massacre of scores of journalists, “Macbeth” sounds a fatal tolling bell that says things have not changed since an ambitious, dominatrix type of a woman, as Ick played Lady Macbeth, unsexed herself and pushed her husband (played by Teroy Guzman) to the dark side to claim what is not theirs.
Manuel Pangaruy, Jr
Ang pagtatanghal na ito ng “Screen: Macbeth” ay isang rarity sa kabi-kabilang produksyon na matalas ang mass appeal o pop art. Nakapagbigay ito ng silid para sa mga mag-aaral upang masaksihan ang mga dulang sa literary textbook lang mahahagilap at kaalinsabay nito ay nakapagturo rin ng totoong leksyon. Isa itong paalala na buhay pa ang mga mangangatay, humihinga at handang dumaluyong sa susunod na biktima.
UP DECL turns 100 with ‘Screen: Macbeth’
Yahoo! News
“Screen means to show but it also means to conceal. The screens in the movie theatres, television, computers, mobile phones, and other digital gadgets that we use today display images and information that mirror only one or two dimensions of ourselves,” Juan says. “However, there are the other dimensions not captured by these screens. These are our deepest desires and fantasies, which we do not show but conceal.”
Anton Juan’s Screen: Macbeth for UP School of Drama to merge live performance and film
Gibbs Cadiz
The ensemble of witches is treated like a diverse chorus of people of everyday life, establishing the panorama against which existing social corruption and political intrigue fester. The production seeks to articulate the conflict between corruption and conscience, between the dark spaces of abjection and the will triggered by desire and greed.
‘Screen: Macbeth’ is not just sound and fury
Carmela G. Lapena | GMA News Online
Going beyond the play itself, Screen: Macbeth allows the audience to see the story as something more familiar than strange.
Certainly, Shakespeare’s lines are by no means easy to decipher, but Juan’s treatment aids the audience in understanding the events and more importantly, the story’s meaning.
The images, lights, sounds and the actors weave the tale so tautly that it is not just what is happening that is conveyed but the emotion itself.
Walter Ang | Philippine Daily Inquirer
“I welcome any and all attempts to do something with Shakespeare that work to make him mean to us in ways that require far less effort,” [Judy Ick] says. “That way, Shakespeare’s plays can reach wider audiences which, to me, can only be a good thing because I firmly believe that Shakespeare has much to say.”
The UP Lingua Franca, a language and literature organization based in the College of Arts and Letters, held a lecture discussing the development of and research behind the play “Screen: Macbeth.”
Image sources
“Screen Macbeth Photos March 2011” by Virgie Sorita
Shakespeare in the Philippines 